A follow-up report on SSD failures finds that only Intel SSDs are standing up to repeated sudden power failures. When does this become a problem for consumer drives, and what can people do to protect themselves?

At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Intel will perform the first public demonstration of an overclocked SSD. Details are very slim at the moment, but in theory it should work: Solid-state drives, like your DRAM or CPU, are driven by a clock — it should be possible to boost an SSD’s performance by meddling with that clock, or perhaps altering the timings. Whether the overclock reduces stability and data retention/integrity, though, remains to be seen.

That day has finally arrived: Crucial is selling a 1TB SSD for just $600. Not only is this the first mainstream SSD to offer a terabyte (960GB) of capacity, but it also clocks in at just 60 cents per gig — by far the cheapest high-capacity SSD on the market. Crucial’s 1TB drive is actually significantly cheaper (per gig) than the smaller drives in the same range.